LangChain + Pinecone + OpenAI

RAG / AI Search

The canonical RAG stack. Embeddings, vector storage, and LLM orchestration for AI-powered search.

Components

1LLM orchestration & chains

LangChain

2Vector database

Pinecone

3Embeddings & LLM

OpenAI

Why This Stack

OpenAI provides both the embedding model (text-embedding-3-small) and the completion model (GPT-4o). Pinecone stores and queries embeddings with low latency at scale. LangChain ties them together with document loaders, text splitters, retrieval chains, and prompt templates.

Integration Notes

1

Use LangChain's PineconeVectorStore with OpenAI embeddings for zero-config vector setup

2

Split documents with RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter (chunk size 1000, overlap 200) as a starting point

3

Use LangChain's RetrievalQA chain for simple RAG, or LCEL for more control

4

Set Pinecone index dimension to 1536 for text-embedding-3-small or 3072 for text-embedding-3-large

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